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  • Sketch and Toon Thickness

    Posted by Joe Vac on January 29, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    I have sketch and toon applied to a spline curve to give the object a painted on feel. I want the thickness to vary in certain points on the spline. I’ve used “Along Stroke” to create the thickness that I want on the final reveal. Only problem is that I only want those thickness changes in designated areas, not while its drawing on. In other words, the “Along Stroke” continuously happens no matter how long the stroke is instead of in particular areas. Is there another way to do this? I’ve tried to animate the strength of the “Along Stroke” but it doesn’t give me the look I want.

    Here is the example, you can see the thickness values moving along the spline instead of revealing in their final areas.

    https://www.joevac.tv/test.html

    does this make sense??

    Joe Vac replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    January 29, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    I don’t think you’ll get what you want this way. The problem is that S&T’s routines always see the entire spline and work relative to the overall length. You probably have more luck by splitting up your splines in segments and have them animate individually. Might be a bit clunkier, but with some simple XPresso/ driven key animation it would still be managable.

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Joe Vac

    January 29, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    Thanks

    Looks like I’ll need to work around it.

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